More than 4,000 Qin troops have been besieged on the dirt mountain, and twenty-three days have passed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoEvery day spent here is in fear and suffering, and every night, everyone is afraid that they will not see the sun tomorrow. The Zhao army, which was surrounded by water under the mountain, launched more than a dozen strong attacks, but the Qin army knew that if they didn't fight hard this time, they would definitely die worse than a dog, so they didn't need to mobilize and encourage, they all tried their best to block, plus the boulders on the mountain, broken wood, etc., abounded, and it was condescending to the defense It was more beneficial to the defense, so although from the original more than 6,000 people who fled up the mountain, the number of people reduced to less than 4,000 now, Tushan, the last stronghold to save his life, was still stubbornly held by the Qin army.

Shi Min led nearly 20,000 Zhao troops, and it was difficult to succeed in several back-attacks, so he ordered arson everywhere under the mountain, trying to simply burn all the Qin troops to death. But fortunately, there was a small ponding lake on the mountain, but Yang Tao, the commander of the Qin army, asked all the soldiers to splash the water with a scoop, just watering the trees and land on the mountainside, and in the end, although the fire could not be extinguished, it was finally unable to burn up, leaving only the smoke embers on all sides around the mountain, and the scorched black churning did not disperse for a long time.

Yang Tao had already been prepared, and when he saw the mountain down, he was at a loss and stopped, and hurriedly organized thousands of brave soldiers, taking advantage of the unsightly smoke, he took the initiative to rush down, shouting and breaking into the Zhao army that was caught off guard, slashing and killing frantically for a while, and then quickly fled back to the mountain.

Shi Min was furious, so he urgently ordered the soldiers to immediately follow the counterattack, but there were Qin army crossbowmen hidden behind the smoke that had not yet dissipated.

Shi Min jumped like thunder, but he was helpless for a while. However, he knew that the Qin army had fled up the mountain in a hurry, and the materials they carried were bound to be thin, so he ordered the Tushan to be firmly encircled, cutting off the Qin army's food and water sources, and planning to trap it to death. However, Shi Min didn't know that there was a small lake on the mountain, and there were many hares and mice, and occasionally a few wild boars jumped out, so the chief manager would ensure that everyone would not be starved to death of thirst. So the upper and lower sides confronted each other, and more than 20 days passed.

On the mountain, behind a small slope, Yang Tao was sitting on the ground with his legs on his legs, and together with a group of soldiers, they were all leaning against the slope rocks, seizing the time to close their eyes and recuperate. In order to further tighten the defensive measures, he personally led the soldiers to set up sharp fences on the mountainside, dig more traps, and criss-cross rattan as tripwires to resist another wave of attacks that may come at any time.

After repeated strong work, Yang Tao was a little unbearable. It's not that his physical fitness is not good, the key is that a few days ago, the mountain was basically out of food. The hares and rats have been basically arrested, the snake nests have been dug up, and the remaining mountain birds and beasts, large and small, have all fled, and they can't be caught if they want to. Today, more than 3,000 people rely on wild vegetables and tree bark to barely support themselves, and when they can't bear it, they drink water violently. People are iron, rice is steel, you can't fill your stomach, let you be a strong man cast by steel and iron, and you will have to soften into rotten mud after a long time. Including Yang Tao, Qin Jun all drank water and had a round belly, but his face was sallow, thin and haggard, and his eyes were dull.

When there is a gap, everyone takes the time to rest to save and preserve the remaining physical strength. Yang Tao closed his eyes, but his brows were unconsciously locked, as the commander, as the pillar and backbone of the Qin army on the mountain, he couldn't think about it from time to time.

It has been almost a month since I was besieged in the mountains. Previously, he had also sent capable and agile scouts to lurk down the mountain and quickly return to Luoyang to report to the emperor and ask for help. But to this day, not a scout has returned, I don't know if it was killed at the hands of Zhao Jun, or if there was some other accident. Now waiting for foreign aid is not coming, and the army's forward Lei Qizhi has made contact, when Lei Qizhi heard that the commander was attacked, he immediately returned to the army to attack Shi Min several times, trying to break through the siege, but it was difficult to work. When he was in a hurry, Lei Qizhi had no choice but to make a decision, and simply rushed to attack the empty Jiaocheng, but just entered and occupied Jiaocheng, he was suddenly besieged by an army of 30,000 led by Emperor Zhao Shihu.

Yesterday, a well-known scout in Jinyang City suddenly ventured up the mountain, bringing even more depressing and angry bad news. It turned out that the situation in which the Qin army was attacked in a hurry, was stopped and cut into two, each was besieged without echoing, and both were in a dangerous situation, which was planned and facilitated by Shi Hu. The most crucial factor was that Shi Kan surrendered to Shi Hu again, and obeyed Shi Hu's orders to lure the Qin army into an ambush by the prepared Zhao army.

Therefore, Shi Kan wrote an urgent letter to Yang Tao, saying that Shi Hu left Jiaocheng and besieged Jinyang, asking the Qin army to quickly attack and repeatedly urge. Yang Tao has always been vigilant, but where could he have imagined that Shi Kan and Shi Hu would be ugly to each other for a long time, and then they would be able to reconcile in the blink of an eye? was forced by Shi Kan, and was worried that the fighter plane would be fleeting, and after finding out that the front was indeed as he said, Yang Tao couldn't help but relax a little and accelerated his march.

And Shi Hu knew that the Qin army would inevitably have scouts to explore, so he pretended to besiege it for a few days under the city of Jinyang, and when the day was almost over, he immediately withdrew the siege, and ordered Shi Min to lead 10,000 people to ambush in a certain mountain in the south of Jiaocheng. And Shi Hu himself deliberately vacated Jiaocheng, waiting for Lei Qizhi's troops to be cornered and seize it, and then quickly besieged the city, using this strategy to divide the entire Qin army into two divisions that looked at each other from afar but could not help each other, so as to fight more and fight less, divide and annihilate.

The Qin army on the mountain, after knowing that they had fallen into the conspiracy that the enemy had already designed, couldn't help but be both shocked and angry, especially the capricious Shi Kan, who was even more scolding and eager to eat his flesh and blood. But now that this is the case, what good is scolding? Although Yang Tao was so angry that he almost wanted to crush his steel teeth, he still spoke to appease and comfort his subordinates, and stabilized the atmosphere of the commotion first.

After Yang Tao asked the internal scout about the current movements of Jinyang and Zhao Jun again, there was no favorable news, and he knew that these internal government scouts had extraordinary secrets, and there was a unique and fast way to communicate with him, so he asked him to return to Luoyang quickly to ask for help from the imperial court. The scout agreed, and quickly departed.

Yang Tao looked in the direction of the scout in a daze, anxious, resentful, worried, frightened and other emotions in his heart, intertwined and disturbed, making people upset.

Because of the extreme shortage of supplies, the inability to guarantee adequate rest and food, long hours of fierce fighting, and other factors, attrition on the mountain occurred every day. The most terrible thing is that the reinforcements are still not coming, and it is difficult to get timely and effective contact with the outside world, everyone is in a desperate situation, and they can't wait for hope, and their morale and will seem to be being exhausted at a speed that is visible to the naked eye. Although at the moment, all the soldiers and generals are tacitly trying to avoid reality as much as possible, what cannot be ignored is that if this goes on for a long time, including him Yang Tao, everyone is afraid that they will not last long. Once attacked by the enemy, everyone is afraid that they will not even have the strength to raise their swords to commit suicide, so they can only sit back and watch being captured alive, and then brutally tortured and killed.

Yang Tao's heart is like a knife. After fighting for half a lifetime, he was born and died, but now he is going to die on this nameless mountain in the state. Death is death, the soldier is shrouded in horse leather, he has his own consciousness of this. But the key is that he just wants to see each other on the battlefield and sacrifice his life like a hero from ancient times. If you are besieged like a dog like this and slowly consumed to death, and die a dignified and worthless death, who can be willing!

Speaking of which, Yang Tao hated Shi Kan again. This person is shameless and despicable to such an extent, although he doesn't know what kind of rhetoric Shi Hu used, and coaxed him over, but Shi Kan was able to listen to Shi Hu's instigation and tempt the Qin army to be ambushed quickly, which is really heartbreaking.

Besides, as the commander of the battalion marching to the north, he did not keep his vigilance to the end, he believed in Shi Kan's hypocritical face, and once he accidentally involved tens of thousands of troops in a crisis, he would be fortunate to save his life in the future, how could he have the face to meet Gao Yue, how to have the face to meet his colleagues, how to have the face to face thousands of subordinates!

Remorse, frustration, anxiety, worry. When he was thinking wildly, not far away, on a towering boulder on the mountain peak, the sentry who was in charge of climbing the heights and looking out turned down with his hands and feet, and ran over with a puff of smoke: "Handsome! The enemy is there, reinforcements are coming! ”

Yang Tao's heart was beating rapidly, three steps and two steps jumped onto the sentry platform, and a group of soldiers and generals behind him also climbed up in a hurry, everyone gathered together nervously, holding their breath to see, in the distance below the mountain, there were indeed countless Zhao troops under the black pressure, stepping on the dust, rushing violently, dense knives and spears, the cold light reflected flickered and dazzling. Farther away, there is a huge scarlet dachi, looming in everyone's sight, and the momentum is particularly compelling.

Yang Tao opened his eyes wide, opened his mouth wide and wanted to shout something, and suddenly pulled the large and small fire sores on his lips, and the pain of the sudden tearing made him speechless. He clenched his teeth, his cheeks bulged as hard as stones, and his complexion was gloomy and terrible.

"Look! Is that! ……”

"How could it be! ……”

"It's over, we're done! ……”

Next to him, more than a dozen generals and colonels had already sunk their hearts to the bottom, and everyone first screamed and screamed, and then looked at each other, and they all saw clear horror and worry in the eyes of others.

Emperor Zhao Shihu came in person!

The atmosphere on the mountain, at this moment, suddenly became a deathly silence.